Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula - Sabrizain.org

CHAP. IX NEGRITOS OF PERAK 431
the ground patterns was also left to them, so far as
they had learnt them from the Putto,' the servant
of Pie.] But now the people who cut the combs
choose these patterns themselves, and learn to incise
the quiver patterns.'-
In the case of the individual panels, the following
observations may be made :
—
[Every separate sign repeated in the first panel
pattern is called " was " also. A distinguishing
stripe, either at the top or bottom of the panel (in the
repetition of the first panel pattern) is called, as already
stated, " gehab " (" g'hab ")—see, for example, i8E =
" kos " in the second panel pattern. When the first
panel pattern is blank it is called "was picheg." Where
and why these blank panels were introduced is not
known now — "the Puttos have so arranged it"
(see 60, 62).] If a supplementary line is introduced
at the top of the first panel it is called " tepi " or
edge-line (see 8B). But this line appears on all the
combs and also on all the quivers and charm-tubes;
though in very many cases it is not completed and
coincides with the line of section. In certain cases
this edge - line is represented by a broad, dark
stripe. In other cases {e.g. on the quivers and charm-
tubes) it comes between the first panel pattern and
the edge of the comb, and is, naturally, clear and
distinct.^
—
' Cp. Vaughan-Stevens, iii. iii. (2) Combs which possess a blank
2 3 Z.f.E. XXV. 81. The combs
with these clearer edge-lines are
firsl panel,